Weng Takes Lead With Late Surge as 53 Remain After Day 2 of $5,300 the Return
A sensational Day 2 of $5,300 The Return has come to an end after 16 hours that saw the day start with 369 players out of an original 1,142 field and as the final hand was completed just 53 players remained.
The chip leader at the close of shop was Bin Weng (2,395,000) who used a late-night surge, which included a huge hand where he rivered a set against the aces of Christopher Frank to send the two players hurtling in opposite directions in the chip counts.
Right behind Weng as the only other player with more than 2 million chips was Lanny Vaysman who ended second in chips with 2,050,000. The loquacious local player had an eventful day that saw him playing interesting hands all day long and he also caught fire in the last level to become one of the big stacks.
Christopher Ng (1,785,000) and Blake Bohn (1,500,000) also finished in the top five counts at the end of the night and rounding out the top five was none other than Sam Laskowitz (1,425,000) who won the $2,200 Mystery Bounty event here in the Borgata just a few days ago earlier in the series.
Top 10 Chip Counts
| Position | Player | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bin Weng | 2,395,000 | 120 |
| 2 | Lanny Vaysman | 2,050,000 | 103 |
| 3 | Christopher Ng | 1,785,000 | 89 |
| 4 | Blake Bohn | 1,500,000 | 75 |
| 5 | Sam Laskowitz | 1,425,000 | 71 |
| 6 | Ryan Dodd | 1,385,000 | 69 |
| 7 | John Pannucci | 1,385,000 | 69 |
| 8 | Andrew Fegan | 1,195,000 | 60 |
| 9 | Sundiata Devore | 1,195,000 | 60 |
| 10 | Quan Quach | 1,150,000 | 58 |
There are many big-name players still amongst the 53 remaining; including Joe McKeehen (950,000), Frank Funaro (605,000), Richard Alsup (490,000) and Anthony Zinno (475,000) as well as Dan Zack who at one point was among the chip leaders but had a rough end to the day to finish as the bottom stack with 135,000.
One of the highlights of Day 2 was the tense bubble where there were a few micro stacks who were battling it out as well as Aubrey Williams surviving by fading several outs to ultimately leave Tomasz Zakrzewski as the bubble boy.
Among the many notable players who were not able to make it to Day 3 were; Darren Elias who went out in the money and Nick Schulman as he fell in the final level of the night.
The remaining players will take to the felt at 12 noon local time where the levels will extend to 90 minutes on Day 3.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand throughout Day 3 for all of the updates
and a pot of at least 250,000 in the middle. From the small blind Christopher Frank bet 260,000. Bin Weng came along under the gun from under the gun to swell the pot to an even larger amount.
. Frank led-jammed all in and Weng snap-called.
for a rivered set. Frank shook his head and showed his misfortune as he tabled the 
as the table audibly reacted to the hand.
for quads. Lang tabled his beaten 
. "That's not the worst call you'll make tonight" he continued to Frank as he collected his chips.
as he became the bubble boy and left as the last player eliminated without money in his pocket.
. The turn hit Spinella much to the dismay of Williams and the two other micro stacks in the room as the 
paired his side card. The river came the 
of Lang on a board of 
. The turn was the 
to make Williams stand up in anger as she initially thought the club made Lang a flush but the river was the 
to miss Lang and Williams quickly realized that she had survived.
. There was a chunky pot of 215,000 already in the middle. Asher Conniff checked from the big blind. Blake Bohn was under the gun and pushed forward a stack of big chips to force Conniff to risk his entire stack if he were to call.
, which got her a few compliments from her tablemates on the call.
. Zack check-raised his opponent after a bet who then called.
